Movement, Economy, Orientation:

Although a growing amount of research shows that the use of many sociolinguistic variables to describe regional or social varieties of North American English peaked among the Baby Boomer generation, contributors to this supplement highlight ample evidence of a retreat from a shift in the opposite direction, beginning with speakers born in the mid- to late twentieth century. The authors explore how important factors like population movement, economic change, and place/culture orientation shifts may have contributed to drastic changes in the North American English of this period.

Contributors: Katie Carmichael, Aaron J. Dinkin, Daniel Duncan, Sabriya Fisher, Jon Forrest, Lelia Glass, Matthew J. Gordon, Lauren Hall-Lew, Sean Lundergan, Monica Nesbitt, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, Christopher Strelluf